How Pro Teams Fill Seats and Engage Fans (Sports Tech)
When I say sports tech and sports marketing, the very first thing that pops into your heads is ticket sales, right? It’s only natural to think filling seats is the number one priority for professional sports marketers like our guest panelists at last week’s New Economy New Rules event. And while ticket sales may be […]
Tiny Bar, Big Ideas: Barnes & Thornburg Hosting Indiana Meetup during SXSW
The Indiana-based law firm of Barnes & Thornburg will once again host a meetup for Hoosiers attending the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference, which kicks off next Friday in Austin, Texas. David Wong, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg, will also be presenting on opening day with Sarah Feingold, in-house counsel for the popular peer-to-peer […]
Meet the Hack Indiana challenge winners
The Indiana winners of the Indiana vs. Texas Hackathon Challenge were revealed last night at The Speak Easy in Indianapolis. This first-of-its-kind competition pits the two states against one another as a fun way to draw people together to tackle some community problems and spark entrepreneurship and talent development. The two winning Hoosier teams will […]
The survey that sparked Indy’s tech talent movement
Eighteen months ago, TechPoint conducted a workforce survey that sparked a talent movement in Indianapolis. After confirming long-assumed challenges shared by 26 key tech employers and learning valuable insights into their talent recruitment needs, TechPoint developed two tech workforce reports and launched its Xpat and Xtern talent attraction and retention initiatives that are changing minds […]
#tbt Scott Webber recognized as 2008 Mira Awards Trailblazer
As the 2015 TechPoint Mira Awards approach, it’s fun to look back over the past 16 years of awards ceremonies and remember some of the remarkable success stories coming out of Indiana’s tech ecosystem! Scott Webber — one of Indiana’s “founding fathers of tech” — was named TechPoint’s Trailblazer in Technology during the 2008 Mira […]
Finally, an award for tech builders
Every community seems to have the same problem. We do a good job of recognizing the rising stars and the trailblazing lifetime achievers, but nobody ever does much to celebrate the exceptional people in the middle — the actual tech builders and creators. Well, TechPoint is about to remedy that for the tech sector in […]
App maker Bluebridge doubles its workforce, sales and space
Just over a year ago, Indiana Governor Mike Pence joked about the audacity of young people when he told the story of Santiago Jaramillo launching Bluebridge apps from his dorm room during a major jobs announcement. For some, it was the first time they were hearing of Bluebridge or the company’s “mobile apps as a […]
Startup financial projections just got easier
Search “I hate financial projections” in Google and you get more than 72 million results. It’s because the most common spreadsheet templates are complex and confusing with dozens of tabs and thousands of variable inputs. Many entrepreneurs take one look at this kind of Excel madness and give up. The good news is that ProjectionHub, […]
